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x86: Allow booting a kernel from the EFI app
At present this is disabled, but it should work so long as the kernel does not need EFI services. Enable it and add a note about remaining work. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@ -179,10 +179,14 @@ int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit)
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* U-Boot is setting them up that way for itself in
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* U-Boot is setting them up that way for itself in
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* arch/i386/cpu/cpu.c.
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* arch/i386/cpu/cpu.c.
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*
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*
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* Note that we cannot currently boot a kernel while running as
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* Note: this is incomplete for EFI kernels!
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* an EFI application. Please use the payload option for that.
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*
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* This can boot a kernel while running as an EFI application,
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* but if the kernel requires EFI support then that support needs
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* to be enabled first (see EFI_LOADER). Also the EFI information
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* must enabled with setup_efi_info(). See setup_zimage() for
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* how this is done with the stub.
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*/
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*/
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#ifndef CONFIG_EFI_APP
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__asm__ __volatile__ (
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__asm__ __volatile__ (
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"movl $0, %%ebp\n"
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"movl $0, %%ebp\n"
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"cli\n"
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"cli\n"
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@ -191,7 +195,6 @@ int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit)
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[boot_params] "S"(setup_base),
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[boot_params] "S"(setup_base),
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"b"(0), "D"(0)
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"b"(0), "D"(0)
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);
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);
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#endif
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}
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}
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/* We can't get to here */
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/* We can't get to here */
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@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ This work could be extended in a number of ways:
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- Avoid turning off boot services in the stub. Instead allow U-Boot to make
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- Avoid turning off boot services in the stub. Instead allow U-Boot to make
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use of boot services in case it wants to. It is unclear what it might want
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use of boot services in case it wants to. It is unclear what it might want
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though.
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though. It is better to use the app.
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Where is the code?
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Where is the code?
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